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<h2>First Day Survey of Statistics Students</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Data from a first day class survey in an introductory statistics course
</p>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame with 43 observations on the following 13 variables.
</p>

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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Section</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Section: <code>1</code> or <code>2</code></td>
</tr>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Class</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Year in school: <code>Freshman</code>,  <code>Sophomore</code>, <code>Junior</code>, or <code>Senior</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Sex</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> <code>F</code>=female or  <code>M</code>=male</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Distance</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Distance (in miles) to get to campus</td>
</tr>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Height</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Height (in inches)</td>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Handedness</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;">  <code>Left</code>, <code>Right</code>, or <code>Ambidextrous</code> </td>
</tr>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Coins</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Value of coins student has (in class)</td>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>WhiteString</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Estimated length of a white string (in inches)</td>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>BlackString</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Estimated length of a black string (in inches)</td>
</tr>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Reading</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Expected amount of reading during the semester (pages/week)</td>
</tr>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>TV</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Hours of TV watched per week</td>
</tr>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Pulse</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Resting pulse rate (beats per minute)</td>
</tr>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
    <code>Texting</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Number of text messages in past 24 hours</td>
</tr>
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 <td style="text-align: right;">
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<h3>Details</h3>

<p>An instructor at a small liberal arts college distributed a data survey on the first day of class. The data for two
different sections of the course are given in this dataset.
</p>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Student survey in an introductory statistics class.
</p>


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